This is what happens when education becomes a commodity. Every aspect of it is up for sale. We need free tertiary education now.

Never ever eat breakfast cereal. Loaded with poison sugar. They’ve lobbied everyone to believe the myth. Aussie Bob.

I've given up sugar, fasting all the time. 61 and the best I've felt for 20 years.

Yep, 70 now, border line diabetic. KZfaq has changed everything. The bastards have nowhere to hide. Keep up the good fight.

Highly recommend reading Sweet Poison (David Gillespie). It highlighted this many years ago.

Thank you for covering this. Our food environment is garbage and our rates of chronic disease are a systemic issue with these companies are major contributor.

How appropriate: Big Sugar = BS

The food industry is criminal. Aussie Bob

Big sugar loves processed cereal like the fossil fuel industry loves Dutton's neuclear power.

I remember, as a kid, dissecting the Rice Bubbles in my bowl and thinking “these things are just air and dust”. Now, as a parent the closest thing my kids get to cereal is porridge.

About time we all woke up. Shame for the residents of Mossman where the sugar mill is closing. Surely more to come. Sucks to be so dependent. And when are we going to have the expose on Margarine?

Well I'll just take another mouthful of a Monster or may be a Red Bull. I need to wash down the Irony.

" Carbs" back in the day where in your car and high carbs were the one where the air filter stuck out through the bonnet or hood.

Don't have aspartamate either.. It causes many ailments.

Milo is 46% sugar (read the tin) and Novo Nordisk makes OZEMPIC.

Stopped daily cereals years ago. Barely looked back.

we should also discuss beer (beers contain degrees of unfermented sugars) and starch eg: potato chips - we digest the potato chips and the body converts this to sugar. Dietry education needs to start in primary schools.

Oh Westie, you had me at Riboflavin 😂

I was raised on sausage and eggs for brekky. Never got into the cereal.. especially not the processed sweetened crap. Oats with plain yoghurt are ok every once in a while. Never had high cholesterol, never had a bad bmi. Always had low blood sugar.

They say public trust in institutions is low. Well when they are for sale is it any wonder why trust is low?

Sugar is one of the most cheapest addictive substances.

Breakfast cereal is in the sugar isle beside the lollies isle, beside the conserves isle, next to the ice cream fridges.

Yayyy, so happy to see this Westy. Did you know that Keloggs INVENTED the "healthy food pyramid" in the 70s to sell more cereal?

David Gillespie has been leading the charge against sugar for over a decade. He has a very good book on the problem. Even though the health profession is aware of the problem, we grow too much sugar in Australia for the government to regulate maximum sugar levels in food as some other Countries,ie Denmark, have.

Supermarket shelves are overflowing with sugar saturated Easter "eggs".

More health content, please! Australian medical sector has no interest in the simple preventative measures which could really improve our lives. They're far more interested in letting people become chronically sick, so they can prescribe tablets for the rest of their lives

Haven't had a sweet tooth since I was young but I do remember enjoying a bowl of Crunchy Nut Cornflakes. Salt on the other hand...I also remember when it was the boogeyman.

Coffee is the breakfast of champions.

Too right and thank you ! Statins is another area !!

Grateful for growing up in rural NZ in 70’s only breakfast cereal knew of was weetbix …and Oats for porridge- & have never brought them for my children - always thought that such sugary crap should be in confectionery aisle Glad to hear ppl are waking up re these horrendous health threatening products

Thanks Westy you the man bring the news to us.

I pigged myself to T2D, so i stopped pigging and T2D just stopped and i lost 20 kilos. I know its a tedious post but i have to check in.

Sugar is the next Tobacco.

I'm shook thinking that I went through all my primary and high schooling having been served this shit by my parents. No wonder I didn't learn anything and was miserable. Sugar highs on an empty stomach is yiiiiiikes

I figured out over 15 years ago that breakfast cereals were bad for you, and a con. Better off with an egg. Worked out 10 years ago that breakfast wasn't even important, unless maybe you have a physical occupation. Now there's evidence that fasting over night until lunch time is good for you. I've been doing this already - except for my coffees. And now, I am angry about being lied to, by all sorts of peak bodies.

Fruit loops one day.. dementia the next !

Insulin was discovered by 2 canadian scientists around a hundred years ago, they sold the patent to USA production factories for like a dollar...... now the pharmaceutical industrial complex makes billions off that patent.

I was diagnosed as pre diabetic about a year ago. After lots of research I started intemitant fasting (cutting out breakfast all together) and low carb, low sugar, no Ultra Processed Food diet. I lost 12 kilos and my latest blood tests show my blood sugars are back to normal. My doctor was surprised at how quick the turnaround was. I am 60 and feel better than I did in my 30's. Don't eat anything low fat (it's high sugar), cut down the take away rubbish and eat natural.

Highly processed food, not just sugar. Eating all the time this is what causes Insulin resistance which causes T2D

Have a look at the documentary called "That Sugar Film" released in 2014 by an Australian actor called Damon Gameau. He was under the supervision of doctors while eating the recommended 'healthy' sugar laden foods and became so overweight and unwell within a few months.

Thnku for raising this. Academia was captured by the sugar and pharmaceutical industry decades. Lo carb is the way to go.

Carbohydrates = sugar. It's pretty simple.

Chesterfield-Evans and the 'Buga-up' of forty odd years ago informed the public of eleven tea spoons of the 'white-death' in every can of Coke..... but you need the 'ears' that here.

Thanks!

Thank you.

Well done

Breakfast? Eat oatmeal.

Thanks

This is brilliant work

My old man picks the fructose.. that goes to Cotties.. to make the poison.. that I like best 🎶

Yeah I remember all those commercials, cornflakes and nutri-grain was mine- just sugar on sugar - worst thing of all

In the 80's my brothers would rip into Nutri-Grain as well. I came from a big family with a history of diabetes and we were bought up on junk food- cordial, soft drinks, lollies, chocolates, vegemite, peanut butter and jams. We even drank cheap instant coffee as kids with dollops of ice cream on top,on the weekends. And the big family sized ice cream bucket was on the dining table before thhe last person had finished their main meal, every night! Along with other sweets, such as custards, creams, Sara-Lee frozen pastries. Breakfast cereals and all sorts of processed carbs- biscuits, cakes, spagetti and all that fkking white bread, made ever so soft from the sugar, were all staple items. We weren't allowed to eat fruit, apparently it was too expensive. And meat was prized. No wonder I was an over-weight, hyper-active kid with a mouth full of fillings & covered in ezcema. The only veges I'd eaten were out of the frozen section at the supermarket. It took moving into a punk share house in Newtown in the early 90's, when I was a teenager to be confronted by all these alien whole foods, like chickpeas, in recycled take away containers (sourced from the local food co-op) to sort out the mess. It's been doing my head in for years the way the Australian health care system is structured, to support worst case scenarios of dis-ease through advanced technology, medicines and surgical procedures, when we could re-structure things to incentivise preventative medicine, especially through nutrition and other lifestyle factprs. But we don't, obviously because of all the industry, jobs and corporate profit dependent on most Aussies dying from preventable metabolic diseases. And then there's the rumours about the gut-dementia connection and how sugar is implicated in that. Yikes! PS: Once in a blue moon the Greens pipe up about sugar. and PPS: Thanks for bringing up the topic, it's a political taboo!

Eggs or another protein for breakfast….or just skip all together and fast.

It’s a cycle of influence lobbying with none of it aligning to our nutritional advice from Australian experts. First it was fat was the enemy (diet everything), then sugar was the enemy ( no sugar) and now it’s protein overload. No one seems to be aware of the amount of sodium in packaged food and that one will does a lot of damage too.

69, borderline diabetic - now on low carb diet, learnt via KZfaq presentations by low carb medical professionals. Happy you covered this topic. Last 3 doctors I've seen for annual check-ups don't accept low-carb. They only accept the Australian dietary guidelines - which is another 'big business influence' story, uncovered on KZfaq.

Thanks westy

Medication wise metformin is first used in type 2 diabetes not insulin. Though healthy eating & exercise would be the first recommendation. This does not dismiss your point about sugar though.

I visited a dietitian once & I was astounded by the advice to eat certain brands of processed food, so I asked who she was sponsored by. The response was subdued outrage & protest against the allegation... but it was bullshit so I just said forget it, I'm going to upgrade to an education on KZfaq!

👍🏻 good reporting buddy

That friut loop advert looks like an eshay wrote it.😂 uncle tobys is the worst. I can't fathom how they get 4 stars on their products.

Oats, oats, oats. With yoghurt…✌️

Finally, one of your videos I can get behind. Well done.

Robert Lustig deals with all this very thoroughly.

The biggest giveaway for me on Nutrigrain was that it was shiny, and shininess is caused by carbs/sugar so really that and its sweet taste was telling me that it was bad for me.

The enzyme in your spit (salivary amylase) actually unravels simple carbs (white bread, rice, pastry) into sugar in your mouth.

I think im at the point now where if i want a bowl of sugar id rather make a fruit salad from fruits i bought at the farmers market As an aside, for years now ive been lamenting how flavourless the produce is that you buy now compared to when I was a child. Theres many reasons for that. If youve ever bought australian produce overseas, its worlds apart from what you get back home. We export so much of our high quality produce overseas that were just left with the seconds here. I also find supermarkets focus so much on appearance they neglect the taste! Going to farmers markets was a big eye opener me. I cant walk into a coles or Woolworths now without thinking their fruit looks fake

I eat cereal for breakfast maybe once every 3 months. I never ate it regularly as a child. My favourite breakfast is fried eggs, sunny side up on toast (multigrain) with butter. Real butter of course because margarine is another of those questionable products pushed by the food anxiety business models.

Type 2 diabetes can be reversed (search). Sugar is certainly involved, but the science now rests on fat accumulating in muscles and in the pancreas as the primary factor. As usual, diet and exercise is the pathway to repair. A high sugar diet, typically goes with a high (saturated) fat diet and overweight (but there can be skinny diabetics type 2 as well). The food industry is rife with negligence to health over profit - they know a high sugar/fat diet is addictive.

Worked in the sugar industry starting in my youth from ‘Paddock’ (farmer) then on the ‘Plate’ side (Refiner in Sales & Marketing). Was known about but never talked about. You were shut down very quickly. Look up Dr Gary Fetke & his wife Belinda on the history & how we got to where we are today.

Sanitariam stopped making high fibre wheetbix. The rest are so sweet and bad for my stomach. I can't work as hard without decent food

I have never eaten cereal for breakfast maybe for a short time and have always eaten bacon and eggs and guess what i'm 56 and no Diabetes so far when every family member around me were diabetic?

Plus branded breakfast cerial is so rediculously expensive. $10 for a standard size box of coloured sugar? No thank you

all in moderation "even moderation" sometimes! thanks mate !

You should do a story on the deficient cancer treatment in Australia. And how Australian technology could have a significant impact and save millions in health care costs which is not desirable for some. Optiscan is an Australian company that has the technology for efficient and effective cancer treatment and prevention of many deaths. Basically it is digital a biopsy . Remarkable but not available for humans. It can detect the margin zone between non-cancerous and cancerous tissue. Ideally suited for breast cancer but all the cancer organisations and charities are not interested. Bizarre and amazing

lol nutri-grain. I remember, grade 4 in 1996. One of my classmates was hyper and she apologised putting it down to a big bowl of nutri-grain for breakfast.

Sorry Michael West. Could you clarify what the problem is with low GI diets

Do all cereals contain sugar? Fiber I?

I would have thought big sugar would equate to CSR or similar and that Kelloggs would be the direct customer and we the final users.

Try the carnivore diet, first few weeks can be tough when you are withdrawing from sugar addiction but after that it is easy just eat meat, eggs and butter/ beef tallow and salt have to find the balance of fat to protein. I have lost 25kgs and feel great definite reduction in anxiety depression and have all day energy!

Speaking as a type 1 diabetic since the 70's. I realised yrs ago that dietary advice from doctors and dieticians about breakfast (and even how many carbs we should eat) was just plain wrong. I've asked other t1 diabetics over the years and every one of them feels much the same. I always figured the breakfast obsession had to be a marketing based myth. See the Ancel Keys/ John Yudkin debate re: sugar vs fats.,. The flamboyant, American won and John Yudkin who had figured that carbs and especially sugar was literally killing us was shut down. Schools/doctors/dieticians, endocrinologists everyone fell for it. Nice to realize I was right about this (and that I'm not mad for sometimes ignoring the medical professional advice that on this issue just seemed not to be working that well.)

I never even liked most cereals so not eating them was easy lol! (I mean I liked the really sugary ones like fruit loops, but they were so obviously unhealthy my parent wouldn't buy them so they were a treat at some friend's houses, have rarely touched them as an adult)

For years now - my breakfast has consisted of half a tub of yogurt and a white coffee with zero sugar. I often don't eat anything else until dinner time when it's usually a chicken burger with some chips or a bowl of spag-bol, or it's a pasta bake (cheesy) with steamed veggies. But sugar and sugary drinks are few and far between.

Fun fact: The incidence of Alzheimer's, Diabetes, and other diseases increased dramatically with the rise in sugar consumption since 1900 to now. Really accelerated around the 50's and 60's.

I have not been a fan of breakfast cereal since I found out how bad it is.

WHAT ! they found a vitamin in breakfast cereal ! 😱

The big supermarkets also remove beneficials healthy cereals from their stores / buy them out / close them down because the profit margin they make on a sale isnt half as good as selling cardboard and sugar as cereal. Csiro wellness / goodness foods vanushed from the shelves a few years back , returned temporarily as a coles owned colee brand cereal then quickly vanished again.

Cereal is the easiest way to eat in the morning, alternatives are rolled oats? Bacon and eggs? Especially with young kids the choices are slim overall if they are too eat at all, and obviously i don't pick the obviously high sugar stuff.

I haven't had sugary cereals for 20 years now. I eat oats with berries, pumpkin seeds, flax seeds etc.. and no milk. Maybe a boiled egg too. No juice either. Just water.

I learned 25 odd years ago that only weetbix and vita brits were half healthy. The rest are full sugar. I avoided cereal since and got fat through other means, like beer and pies.

A glass and a half of full cream misery !

Oh boy, that's just the beginning. If only.

Sugar is developing a consumption pattern similar to tobacco - increasingly well or, empowered, educated people are consuming less and less. Marginalized, poorer, uneducated people are consuming more

Literally says 90% of the daily needs comes from the milk.

Cadbury chocolate has 59% sugar.

Low-Carb High-Fat is the way as it's always been for facultative carnivorous humans.

Tea and Vegemite toast for me, any day.

If I have cereal....it's plain wheat based products only. The rest is junk. Even museli, which is laced with lollies....sorry dried preserved fruit

Tax sugar reduce obesity !

Added sugar and processed junk is what you mean when you say carbs. Carbs aren’t bad when you eat them in fruit and vegetables. Carbs also includes starches and dietary fibre which most people don’t get enough of.

At the end of the day .... its up to you to purchase what you feel suits you. We all know advertising is just advertising... do not buy just due to an ad. about anything, whether it's food, holidays, etc. The buck stops with each of us, not the producer or advertising agency .... think before you jump.